Paper Pumpkin sent me this subscription box for my review.
Paper Pumpkin is one of the subscriptions I have just been dying to try, so I was super excited when Stampin’ Up! sent me one for review! Stamping and paper crafts are the kinds of crafts I wish I had the creativity to come up with something myself… but I just don’t! I’ve tried, I promise.When I’m stressed out I like to do a craft, it just seems to help release all the bad ju-ju. And my daughter won’t even go to bed unless we’ve crafted that day so I always have to have some sort of project on hand! We did this one together!
It’s not surprising that Paper Pumpkin has adorable packaging! I love that the card says thank you! It doesn’t have any information on the craft – that’s all inside!
After unwrapping everything, these were the contents of my kit. As far as I know, this is the 16.95 try me option, which is a slightly smaller kit than you’ll get with the monthly option.
Tada! The craft! It’s a note/memo roll. My 90 year old grandma has one of these boards and whoooa did this bring me back!
The instructions The instructions are very brief, and to be honest, I had a ton of questions. As far as I know, these kits are not for hardcore stampers. I did not, for example, understand the acetate sheet/stickers for the stamps. The last time I did any stamping I used velcro. These instructions would be better if they were written for newbies. And I would have caught on a little quicker if I wasn’t trying to put the sticker on a circular stamp!
I finally figured it out. The sticker gets applied permanently to the stamp. It adheres through the magic of friction to the acrylic block.
We applied the ink to the stamp.
And created! I did find this a bit of an odd craft for stamping to be honest. I would have to keep my stamps at the ready every time I made a new note. Never going to happen! But I will totally use this board and probably replace the really super cute paper roll with register tape? I’m guessing this roll is something Stampin’ Up! sells?
My daughter really enjoyed using the memo board to create notes. She drew a strawberry ice cream cone with a cherry on top (no check – didn’t eat it!). And a pizza (check!!! we went to Costco that day!).
You can choose a demonstrator near you when you sign up for Paper Pumpkin. I did totally enjoy making this craft, I loved that it wasn’t too complicated, but I really would like to try the full month’s box (this was a trial box, which I didn’t realize) before deciding if it was for me or not. One of the things I really liked about this kit (and it would be true of any of their kits) is that the main parts – the stamps and the ink – will still be there after the consumables are gone!
The good news is that one of you gets to try out this unique craft subscription too! This kit does not come with an acrylic block but you can actually do the craft without it! [Giveaway has ended] See all the paper & stationery subscription boxes in the directory!
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Ok I just got around to working on this one and I couldn’t do it just as shown. I pulled out some of my other supplies and came up with a fun alternative. http://lovemyrandomness.blogspot.com/2013/11/my-paper-pumpkin-october-2013-kit.html
Very odd they sent you this kit. I’m a stampin’ up demo and this was the kit for this month but if you join My Paper Pumpkin everyone gets the same started kit which has some more instructions for the stamps and your clear block. I’m so glad they sent you a block with this kit since if you subscribed you wouldn’t have had one in this kit. I will agree this wasn’t the most exciting of the crafts we’ve gotten since they opened and I’m still trying to decide what to do with mine. I’m thinking of changing it into a picture holder of some kind or adding magnets to it and putting it on the refrigerator. I do have some of the other kits we’ve gotten on my blog if you want to see what has been sent in the past. I’m hoping for a great card kit next month. 🙂
Just wanted to let you see some of the past projects.
Septembers http://lovemyrandomness.blogspot.com/2013/09/my-paper-pumpkin-september-2013.html
August http://lovemyrandomness.blogspot.com/2013/09/my-paper-pumpkin-august-2013.html
July – banner kit http://lovemyrandomness.blogspot.com/2013/08/my-paper-pumpkin-july-2013.html
May – brag book http://lovemyrandomness.blogspot.com/2013/06/my-paper-pumpkin-may-2013-created.html
and you can see more on my blog if you want.
Everyone who signs up gets the same First box though and that is this one http://lovemyrandomness.blogspot.com/2013/05/paper-pumpkin-intro-kit.html after your first month you will start getting the same as everyone else.
This month I will even say wasn’t the best one but I’m very excited to see next month and ones in the future, 🙂